Why Schumacher's not done yet

On the face of it, Michael Schumacher's Turkish Grand Prix looked like a bit of a disaster. But if you scratch beneath the surface, as Jonathan Noble has, you begin to see a different picture emerge altogether

Skimming through the headlines in the days after the Istanbul race, you could have been forgiven for thinking that Michael Schumacher had actually thrown in the towel on his Formula 1 return.

His use of those two words - 'big joy' - to describe what he wasn't getting from F1 right now were pored over, rehashed, spun around and turned into a million stories declaring that his time was up.

And for those peddling that view, there had appeared to be little evidence in the 58 laps of the Turkish Grand Prix to suggest that the seven-time champion was anything other than a man no longer performing at the top of his game.

His race effectively finished early on when he clashed with Vitaly Petrov, Schumacher found himself turned into a big silver target for the rest of the afternoon - as television replays showed collisions and wheel-banging with the likes of Rubens Barrichello, Kamui Kobayashi, Adrian Sutil and Felipe Massa.

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